About this Book

Beyond the Book

Diana Evans
is a graduate of the University
of East Anglia's Creative
Writing MA, and lives in
London. She has published short
fiction in a number of
anthologies, has worked as a
journalist and arts critic for
several magazines in the United
Kingdom, and writes regularly
for the Independent and
Stage. She recently won
the 2005 Orange Prize for New
Writers for 26a (The
Orange Prize for Fiction,
supported by the Arts Council
England, has been awarded
annually for 10 years but last year was the first year for the Orange Award for New
Writers).

Diana Evans was prompted to write her first novel following the suicide of
her own twin sister. She says, "It stopped me in my tracks ... I wasn't
really ...

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